Biographer writes short story in tribute to Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury biographer Sam Weller writes on his blog that a new short story, “The Shadows Behind the Trees” (PDF here) is a tribute to his friend and mentor. About… Read more »
Rumpus announces pen pal club with Eggers, Ames, Cho and others
Technology be damned! Here’s something that will connect you to one of your favorite authors, give the USPS something to do, and allow your screen-weary eyes a rest. Remember when… Read more »
Literary correspondence: T.S. Eliot ‘handsome’, Burroughs ‘has gone insane’
How about this for a delightful literary correspondence? In 1961, Electric Literature tells us, Groucho Marx received a request for a portrait from none other than T.S. Eliot. Presumably slightly bemused… Read more »
Beckett’s Postwar Reading List
The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 2 was released last month; the book reveals what the famous author was reading from 1941 to 1956, along with notes about the novels… Read more »
It can hardly be called a truce, but Christopher Hitchens recent dispatch for Guernica seems close to slowing a longstanding battle with Noam Chomsky over the historical importance of the… 1 / Read more »
Has Alan Dershowitz been conducting a behind-the-scenes campaign to block a book accusing him of plagiarism, and of not writing his own books? As Steven Zeitchik details in a Publishers… Read more »
A collection of condolence letters written to the husband and sister of Virginia Woolf after her suicide in 1941 has been released this week in England. As Sarah Crown notes… Read more »